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Love Game: A History of Tennis, from Victorian Pastime to Global Phenomenon
by Wilson, Elizabeth | HC | LikeNew
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Like New
- Seller notes
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780226371283
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
022637128X
ISBN-13
9780226371283
eBay Product ID (ePID)
24038273282
Product Key Features
Book Title
Love Game : a History of Tennis, from Victorian Pastime to Global Phenomenon
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Tennis, Modern / General, History
Publication Year
2016
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Sports & Recreation, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
19.1 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2015-033804
Reviews
A sporting history unlike any I've read--one that, in its sophistication and thoughtfulness, shows up the hollowness of most other accounts., Weaves a wandering, eccentric path through the century and a half since modern tennis's founding as a boxed game called Sphairistike. . . . Wilson drop-shots mini-essays on broader intellectual topics.
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
796.342
Table Of Content
1 The game of love PART ONE: A LEISURED CLASS 2 Healthy excitement and scientific play 3 Real tennis and the scoring system 4 The growth of a sporting culture 5 On the Riviera 6 What's wrong with women? 7 A match out of Henry James 8 The lonely American 9 The Four Musketeers 10 Working-class heroes 11 Tennis in Weimar - and after 12 As a man grows older 13 Three women PART TWO: THIS SPORTING LIFE 14 Home from the war 15 Gorgeous girls 16 Opening play 17 Those also excluded 18 Tennis meets feminism PART THREE: THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT 19 Bad behaviour 20 Corporate tennis 21 Women's power 22 Vorsprung durch Technik 23 Celebrity stars 24 Millennium tennis 25 The rhetoric of sport 26 Back to the future Bibliography References Acknowledgements Photo credits Index
Synopsis
Tennis has never been played better than it is today. To watch Rafael Nadal spin a forehand at 4000 rpm, Maria Sharapova arabesque out of a serve, Serena Williams utterly destroy a short ball, or Roger Federer touch a volley into an impossibly angled winner is to watch not only the best players with the best coaching hitting with the best racquets, it is to watch the culmination of an entire history. Love Game is different from most tennis books--it isn't a ghostwritten biography, and it won't teach you how to slice your serve. It's a book about tennis's grand culture, one that unveils the sport's long history as it lives and breathes (or grunts) in the modern game. No one is better equipped to tell this story than novelist and historian Elizabeth Wilson. With a penchant for tennis's inherent drama, she finds its core: a psychological face off between flamboyant personalities navigating the ebbs and flows of fortune in the confines of a 78 x 36-foot box--whether of clay, grass, or DecoTurf. Walking the finely kempt lawns of Victorian England, she shows how tennis's early role as a social pastime that included both men and women--and thus, lots of sexual tension--set it apart from most other sports and their dominant masculine appeal. Even today, when power and endurance are more important than ever, tennis still demands that the body behave gracefully and with finesse. In this way, Wilson shows, tennis has retained the vibrant spectacle of human drama and beauty that have always made it special, not just to sports fans but to popular culture. Telling the stories of all the greats, from the Renshaw brothers to Novak Djokovic, and of all the advances, from wooden racquets to network television schedules, Wilson offers a tennis book like no other, keeping the court square in our sights as history is illuminated around it., Tennis is defined by its head games, its demands for physical prowess, and its plethora of outsized personalities. It mixes chess and dance, intellectual geometry and aesthetic joy. People who love tennis love it like few others love other sports. Some fans build their lives around the calendar of tourneys, and events like Wimbledon and the U.S. Open remain, year after year, popular and well attended. Wilson's captivating cultural history embraces the rich and intertwining stories of the sport, and tells the story of its evolution from upper-middle-class hobby to global TV spectacle. Wilson marshals and conveys all the passion for a game known for its players' grunting, growling, sweating, and pursuit of sweet spots. No wonder, as Wilson says, each match starts with love.
LC Classification Number
GV992.W558 2016
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